CHINESE EMIGRATION.
No. 1 of 1889.
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Officer, or on the upper passenger deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be of less dimensions than 18 clear superficial feet for every 50 passengers whom the ship carries.
(2) Every such hospital shall be fitted with bed places and supplied with proper beds, bedding and utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance, and shall throughout the voyage be kept so fitted and supplied.
(3) In the measurement of the passenger decks for the purpose of determining the number of passengers to be carried in any such Chinese passenger ship, the space for the hospital shall be included.
before sail-
*
42.--(1) No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any voyage of more than 7 days duration, until the medical officer has certified to the Emigration Officer, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the passengers or crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about to proceed in such ship.
(2) A medical inspection of the passengers for the purposes of giving such certificate shall take place either on board the ship, or, at the discretion of the Emigration Officer, at such time and on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint.
(3) The master, owner, or charterer of the ship shall pay to the Emigration Officer a sum at the rate of 50 dollars for every hundred persons so examined.
inspection of
contract of
43. The medical inspection of emigrants under contracts of service shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the ship after embarkation, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate required by the Act unless he is satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.
under con-
44. It shall not be lawful for any emigrant under contract of service to embark in any Chinese passenger ship, or for the master or other person on board of a Chinese passenger ship to permit any such emigrant to embark therein, unless such emigrant produces an embarkation permit from the Emigration Officer, who
* As amended by No. 4 of 1908 and No. 62 of 1911.
to embark